New Technology, New PR.

Instead of pitching to 100 newspapers and radios, try to cultivate relationships with, say, 10 of the leading bloggers within your area. Comment on their blogs, establish email contact with them, and try to build the beginnings of a relationship with them.

When you want to start publicizing something, send them a copy. Ask them for their reviews, email them and ask them if you can guest post or do an interview.

Or better yet... sponsor posts! This is such an undervalued means of building your brand. A reasonable blogger may have, say, 10,000 or more readers. Instead of pitching to one newspaper, a big one, with a diminishing chance that it will come off - instead purchase reviews on (say) 100 blogs.

Even better yet, LinkedIn is filled with groups of people who regularly interact with one another. The early days of LinkedIn groups was a bit like the wild west. Everyone was in it for what they could get out of it, and they only hung around long enough to post some form of interruption message there.

However, slowly but surely, people are spending more time within these groups networking, helping each other out, and trying to forge long term commercial relationships.

If you have a blog, then post in the groups that are relevant to you. Not all will be, some will be absolutely useless to you - but others will be of great value.

Try to post a new release every second day, with a catchy headline, captivating content, and lead the reader down to what you are pitching for.

Think I'm grasping at straws a bit here? Dan Rather as bought down by Bloggers, while the established media sat on the sidelines.

President Obama would not have come nearly as far, nor raised nearly as much money, without the army of inspired bloggers banging the drum for him.

The release of Tribes last year really made me sit up and take notice. The entire internet was abuzz with talk of the book. Blogs, Twitter, even Audible.com. The whole place lit up with talk of Tribes and Seth Godin's bold new in your face book on how to change the world.

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